Number One In The News
Number one - as in the euphemism for urine - is in the news today. Item: An eighth-grader from Muncie, Indiana is in some hot water for putting urine in a teacher's coffeepot.
MUNCIE, Ind. - An eighth-grader faces expulsion after admitting he put urine in a teacher's coffee pot, officials said. The Wilson Middle School teacher noticed that the coffee had an unusual odor Friday and reported it to the principal, Muncie Community Schools officials said. A student who overheard classmates discussing it also reported the incident to officials.
Urine was found in the locker of the eighth-grade boy, who admitted to putting some in the coffee, authorities said.
The eighth-grader has been suspended pending a recommendation for expulsion, said Assistant Superintendent Steve Edwards.
We have a recommendation, but we'd probably better not say it out loud, so to speak. Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, we have the completely opposite situation. Chinese reporters put tea in their urine samples. And got back lab results, too.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A group of Chinese reporters came up with a novel idea to test how greedy local hospitals were — pass off tea as urine samples and submit the drink for tests.
The results: six out of 10 hospitals in Hangzhou, the capital of the rich coastal province of Zhejiang, visited by the reporters over a two-day period this month concluded that the patients' urinal tracts were infected.
Five of the hospitals prescribed medication costing up to 400 yuan ($50), the online edition of the semi-official China News Service.
See, if the budding genius in Muncie had put tea in the coffeepot, people would be laughing.
News, World news | Gaius Wednesday, 21 March , 2007
By Uncle Pinky, Wednesday, 21 March , 2007 @ 5:06 pm
I used to supersaturate Prof. Checcino’s coffee urn, so that his cup would crystallize when he added his regular three tsps. of sugar. He was very cool about it, going so far as to tell me that his wife used the resulting mess for cookery. I’d always assumed that was not the type to have a wife, but you live and learn.
Now for Mr. Babyak, I might have saturated with “Battlefield Bactine” but it frankly did not occurr to me. The way he made his coffee, he never would have noticed.
By Bleepless, Wednesday, 21 March , 2007 @ 7:49 pm
This reminds me of the old joke about the disgusted drinker who sent a sample of bad beer to a lab and got back the report, “Your horse has diabetes.”